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Epitaph  on  the 
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EPITAPH 

ON    THE 

femtife  fcml! 

CEASFJO 

fo  exist  at  tlie  lioiir  of 

12  M. 

oil  Wednet-d  ly^the  third  of  DecembiM' 

In  the  Year  of  our  Lord  Eighteen  Hundred  and  Sixty-two  ? 

THE  TERRIBLE   QUINTUMVIRATE 

Usurper  of  the  Sovereignty  of  the  State  of 

SOUTH   CAROLINA, 

who 

after  an  Existence  of  One  Hundred  ami  Forty-five  days, 

during  which  they  endeavored  to  trample  upon  all  the 

RIGHTS  DEAR  TO  A  FREE  PEOPLE, 

Havinj;  declared  ISIarlial  Law  over  thi' 

CITY  OF  CHARLESTON 

on  the  eve  of  a  petition  fmm  (he  j)p.ople  to  their  Keprepentaiives  to 

re-assemhie  the 

C  O  N  V  E  N    r  I  O  N 

They  endeavored  to  suppress  the 

FREEDOM  OF  SPEECH  &  DROWN  DISCUSSION ! 

The   private  property  of  citizens  was    seized — all   offices   distribufeQ 

among  their  kin  and  fiiends — solemn    Acts  of  the  General   Assembly 

were  altered   or   repealed — the  settled  Law  of  the  Land   abrogated — • 

the  Ccnsli'.ution  of  the  State  overturned — the  Public  Fund  squandered. 

And  Filially 
'J'hey  quarreled  um»ng  themselves! 
When 
The  Constitutional  Legislature  of  the  State  rising  in  itii  Dignity  and 
Power,  they,  the    proper  custodians   of  her  honor,  by  a  vote  of  O© 
Yeas  and  only  O  voting  in  mercy,  blotted  out  its  Existence,  on  the  day. 
and  in  the  year  above  written  ! 

MAY 
An  incensed  and  justly  outraged  people  grant  peace  to  their  unsightly 
ashes,  and  may  their  FATE,  illustrating   the    old  saying  *^ Vaulting 
Hmbition  oft  overleaps  kself,"  be  a  heeded 

WARNING 

"'To  all  who  approach  irreverently 

THE  SACRED  ARK 

of  the 
PEOPLE'S  RIGHTS! 
^^Bic  Semifer  TyranU,*' 


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